H. P. Lovecraft 9 min read

Into the grim granite city of Teloth wanders Iranon, vine-crowned, golden-haired, a singer of songs, seeking Aira, the far and lovely city of his childhood that he recalls only in dreams.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1935 story is a haunting Dunsanian dream-fantasy. Lyrical, wistful, beautifully told. Read it for one of Lovecraft's most poignant and poetic tales, a wandering singer's lifelong search for a remembered paradise, a lovely, melancholy meditation on dreams, memory, and disillusion, quite apart from his cosmic-horror mode.

In its time

Published in 1935, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay